【正文】 ill make us more pleasant and easier to accept if we use some rhetoric to express the same sentences, so it is often said that rhetoric is the persuasive speech art. This paper attempts to explore the rhetorical devices in The Great Gatsby and its rhetorical effects on expressing the theme of this novel by considering rhetoric in the novel to be the focus of attention, and the American Dream to be the clue to be the basis. What’s more, it tried to know more about the rhetoric and reveal rhetorical effect, aiming at flexibility in the use of the rhetoric.Key words: rhetoric, Devices，effect, use 《了不起的蓋茨比》中的修辭現(xiàn)象摘要：同樣的言語(yǔ)人們用些修辭手法修辭一下往往使人身心愉悅，使得說(shuō)話者要表達(dá)的意思更容易被接受，因此修辭學(xué)經(jīng)常被說(shuō)成具有勸說(shuō)性演講藝術(shù)。關(guān)鍵詞：修辭手法；現(xiàn)象；作用；運(yùn)用中圖分類號(hào):H315Rhetorical Devices in The Great Gatsby1. Introduction What is the theme of The Great Gatsby? The majority of scholars have discussed it, but little of them discussed it through discuss the rhetorical devices in the novel. We will discuss The Great Gatsby through rhetorical devices in it. We know that what rhetorical perused is good verbal expressive effect. People use speaking, writing and munication to express their feeling and ideas. They do this to plete certain speech acts. It is not purely to be pleased to see or the simply the pursuit of beauty enjoy. The general good rhetorical effect refers to accurate, concise, clear, vivid and moving speaking and it makes people easy to accept. （胡習(xí)之，2010，2） All we talked above are positive effect of rhetoric. This paper will talk about the positive effect of rhetoric，mainly on how Fitzgerald uses the rhetoric to depict the characters of people and analyze their life experience and their essence. It will also explain the tragedy of Gatsby, the tragedy of the whole United States during 1920th and what causes the tragedy. 2. Cultural Backgrounds The Life Experience of Fitzgerald and the Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald is one of the popular novelists among the 1920’s to 1930’s in the United States of America. He is the typical novelist and detached observer, the leading participant who is struggle all his life for money at that period. He bees rich through success in literary creation, but his pletion is not popular in the depression period, he died before American participation in the World War Ⅱ. His works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age. (Malcolm Cowley and Robert Cowley,1990:12). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. He is also a number of the “Lost Generation” of the 1920th. His most famous novel is The Great Gatsby. He had ever express his love to two girl, one abandon him and married rich man, another married him because he bee a rich man through his writing, he lived with his wife in a very luxury life, the money he earned is not enough for their money spend on party and traveling. He lives happily with his wife but his wife got lunacy in latter years, he bees a man who is boozy as his not success in writing Tender is the Night at that period and his wife got lunacy, and he died in 1940 for his heart failure. We know that he is the prototype of Gatsby from his similar life to Gatsby. His writing style is closely related to its theme. His writing style is from the carefully observed in life, carefully selected and the accumulation of satirical details. He reproduced the language and people’s way of thinking of that era accurately. In the section of the novel, he converts from one lively scene of description to the next, let the reader to develop their understanding and imagination of the tedious process. (躍世，1985：7) the Introduction of the Great GatsbyThe Great Gatsby is the most famous novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald，it has ever been played as film in 1929, 1949, 1974, and 2000. It will be played in 2013. The story took place in 1922. During 1920th, the United States bees a prosper country after World War Ⅰ. This book is written in this period and it received a lot of critical acclaim, it also widely regarded as a “Great American Novel”, it expresses the essence of the era. Unlike his previous works, he changed his expressing his luxury life in the novel before and expresses the essence of that era in this novel. There are many rhetorical devices used to portray the essence of that era and the disillusion of American Dream in the novel. American Dream and its Disillusionment The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position. （James Truslow Adams，1931：214215）. We know from it that all men are created equal. The American Dream means that everyone could grow up, receive a good education and career without artificial barriers. And we shouldn’t regard the class, caste, religion, race and ethnicity. In the novel, Gatsby’s American Dream is the seek for money and love of Daisy, As Daisy left him because he is poor, she married a rich and powerful man Tom. He thinks that money can help him to get what he wants so he bought a villa in the west egg and spent large money for the party to attract Daisy’s attention. In Tom’s mind, Daisy is his goodness, she is rich and pure. In order to get Daisy, he quits his belief and bees a bootlegger. Gatsby is a good man that Nick has ever met, he loves Daisy so much and he can do all for her, even the life. But Daisy married with Tom because Gatsby’s poring even though she had hesitated. Daisy thinks money and position are the most important in her life, she betrayed